SANTA CLARA, Calif.,
Aug. 8, 2018 /PRNewswire/
-- Marvell (NASDAQ:MRVL) will demonstrate today at the Flash
Memory Summit how it will provide artificial intelligence
capabilities to a broad range of industries by incorporating
NVIDIA's Deep Learning Accelerator (NVDLA) technology in its family
of data center and client SSD controllers.
Marvell's AI SSD controller proof-of-concept architecture
solution will highlight how machine learning can help applications
accelerate with minimal network bandwidth and no host CPU
processing, delivering a significant reduction in overall total
cost of ownership. The architecture is anticipated to enable a new
era of storage SSD solutions in areas such as cloud and edge data
centers, automotive, industrial, communications networking,
environmental monitoring, banking and client, among others.
Big data analytics systems require enormous amounts of
information to be processed to gain important insights. Metadata
tagging is required for this processing to run efficiently and
effectively. Storage solutions must become more intelligent to
enable the generation of this metadata at the storage end points to
help optimize overall efficiencies while increasing user
experiences and business productivities.
By adding NVDLA to its SSD controllers, Marvell® is
bringing deep learning inference to forms of SSDs, improving
efficiency, reducing power consumption, maximizing scalability and
optimizing distribution of resources. Even large-scale datasets can
be fully supported, while still reducing hardware investment and
operational expenditure. The scalability of this solution will also
allow enterprises and cloud service providers to add more offerings
and capabilities to their product portfolios leveraging AI
technologies. This programmable architecture will enable AI models
to be quickly updated, so that new use cases can be addressed as
they emerge.
"As greater and greater amounts of data get generated at edge
and end points, it is critical new end-to-end architecture
solutions are developed to increase overall productivity while
addressing the pain points of application response time and total
cost of delivery," said Nigel
Alvares, VP of SSD and Data Center Storage Products,
Marvell. "Our AI SSD controller proof-of-concept architecture
solution leveraging NVIDIA's NVDLA technology offers our customers
and ecosystem partners a framework to collaborate and develop the
next generation of SSD and client-to-cloud infrastructure
architecture solutions needed to enable and deliver tomorrow's
applications."
"It is access to data that will fuel big data analytics," added
Noam Mizrahi, VP of Technology and
Architecture at Marvell. "Systems will need to be able to analyze
large quantities of data - of different types and from different
locations. The proper generation of metadata to represent all of
this data will be key to efficient processing. AI technology
running right at the storage device may be used to effectively
generate this metadata, preparing it for further analytics by
higher processing layers. Our advanced AI SSD controller proof of
concept solution sets a new paradigm in utilizing available system
resources more efficiently, resulting in the scalable,
cost-effective data storage expected for all kinds of machine
learning tasks."
"NVIDIA and Marvell share the goals of making AI more accessible
and creating exciting new AI-based solutions," said Deepu Talla, vice president and general manager
of Autonomous Machines at NVIDIA. "Our open NVDLA architecture,
based on advanced Xavier technology, achieves this by providing
partners with state-of-the-art deep learning capabilities."
Noam Mizrahi will present,
'Intelligent SSDs Can Handle a Larger Computing Load at the Edge'
on Thursday, August 9 at the Flash
Memory Summit in Santa Clara,
California. Marvell advanced data storage products will be
on display at booth 511 at the Summit from August 7-9.
About Marvell
Marvell first revolutionized the digital
storage industry by moving information at speeds never thought
possible. Today, that same breakthrough innovation remains at the
heart of the company's storage, processing, networking, security
and connectivity solutions. With leading intellectual property and
deep system-level knowledge, Marvell's semiconductor solutions
continue to transform the enterprise, cloud, automotive, industrial
and consumer markets. To learn more,
visit: www.marvell.com
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